Theme meals have included
dip night (so many dips - so full in the end), Greek food, and last
night we stuffed ourselves with Korean food (thanks to In Young!).

Activities from the past
have been the reading of the Brothers Grimm Tales (Clever Hans), Fishbowl, and karaoke.

Yesterday evening, In
Young had the chance to share with us the food that she was used to
eating. The Canadian diet has required quite a bit of adjusting for
her, but for one evening she got in the flavours of home.

Delicious.

Kimbap! Kimchi! Oi, and
if only I knew the names of the rest. Spicy chicken with potatoes (I
just had the potatoes), cucumbers, eggs, the noodle dish, the beef
dish. Corn tea! I now see that sharing what we ate is not all the
informative at all.

All in all, is was
absolutely delectable. We finished the meal off with a dessert of
sweet potatoes (some-sort-of-sauce) and rise with more
some-sort-of-other-sauce (caramelized something with soy sauce and
cinnamon).

Richie and I conquered the
dishes and then traversed back to the main house (we had been at
Jessica’s) for karaoke.

I think that last sentence
deserves an exclamation mark.

We were quickly cracked
out of our shells (ha! as if we had any) as the tunes started to
play. We started with two group warm ups. Here Comes the Sun by the
Beatles and Cecelia by Simon and Garfunkel (in honour of dear In
Young, who’s Catholic name is Cecelia). Clark took the floor from
there with a sparkling performance of Joker (I think) and Richie’s
rendition of Baby was a memorable site to see. We swayed, rocked, and
clapped to Michael Jackson, Faith by George, Home by Edward Sharpe,
Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder, Dancing Queen by ABBA, the Most Beautiful
Girl in the Room by Flight of the Conchords, Party in the USA by
Miley Cirus, Material Girl by Madonna, West End Girls by the Pet Shop
Boys, Rock Anthem, something by Adele, and Oh Happy Day from Sister
Act II. The night was summed up with a group attempt (with success)
of a Whole New World from Aladdin.

Our technology was just
projector, a flashlight for a microphone, and a laptop running
YouTube.

A search of “Name of
Song” plus “karaoke” would bring up several versions of each
song, which people had set the lyrics to in video form.

Shifty moments came when
we realized exactly what these artists were singing in their songs.
Words came by we had missed, but now read our loud mid-song, and
mid-laugh.

My contributions were Sir
Duke and Dancing Queen. Both were done with YouTube videos I was
already in. Sir Duke was a lipsynching video I had made back when I
was 15 with Jenny Porter. Singing along with my old-self dancing was
not only highly amusing, but gave the group a glimpse into who I am
at home, or who I was (still am). Dancing Queen was from the flash
mob we did back at Swedish Hospital in 2010.

Pardon my dry
representation of this evening. I guess I’m better at capturing the
documenting of “what” happened, but lack the emotion in the
words. How can I write out my over-the-top glee from the night? I
guess that’s why we have authors and why I’m more of a
photographer myself (although I'm less than satisfied with what I came up with this past karaoke night).

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